Fledging Frogmouths
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A Tawny Frogmouth fledgling basks in the sun |
The first Tawny Frogmouths fledged at the weekend, with one chick leaving the nest a day before its siblings, which left the next day. So, a brood of three from the earliest nesting attempt of the year, by the same pair which laid earliest last year and reared three chicks then too.
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Meanwhile its dad continues to brood two chicks in the nest on the next branch |
The female was sitting low in a branch and was most un-noticeable. Then once they had all fledged the whole family moved into an adjacent tree. They will continue to move around their home range from now on, roosting in a different spot most days.
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And mum watches on in-obtrusively |